"Profitability = Intellectual Capital X Price X Effectiveness"e Eficácia em vez de Eficiência e a doença do eficientismo:
"In the business of the future, effectiveness takes precedence over efficiency. A business does not exist to be efficient; it exists to create wealth for its customers. An obsessive compulsion to increase efficiency (doing things right) reduces the firm's effectiveness at doing the right things. The pursuit of efficiency has hindered most companies' capability to pursue opportunities, hence these organizations spend most of their time solving problems. One cannot grow a company and continuously cut costs and increase efficiency. It is not that efficiency is bad, per se, it is that it is being pursued at the expense of nearly everything else. To add insult to injury, the efficiency measures that do exist in the modern organization tend to be lagging indicators that measure efforts and activities, not leading indicators that measure results and define success the same way the customer does. Focusing on effectiveness implicitly recognizes there is no such thing as a free statistic. Just because we can measure something accurately does not mean we should. Effectiveness means that imprecise measurements of the right things are infinitely more valuable than precise measurements of the wrong things. This will no doubt shock some readers, especially those who were trained in cost accounting or possess MBAs. But controlling costs, and accounting for them, does not ensure success."
"what are her first impressions of the fitness sector in this respect? "It's a very inspiring industry, but when you pull back the blankets there aren't really any standards or processes. And that's not just in our company: we had none when I arrived, but I can't find them anywhere. No best practice, no standards, no systems. "When I joined Jatomi Fitness we had 18 different logos, but that was just a symptom of the root cause: a lack of standards. So we've gone back to the foundations, effectively building these under the existing company — putting standards and processes in place to create what I call our gym blueprint, which covers everything from the hiring process to building a new club. If you want to grow as a brand, you have to have these systems and processes — it's just not possible to do it without them."Cada vez menos PME sem processos definidos... bem, ás vezes aquilo que as empresas de processos não são processos a sério mas essa é outra história.
"Hoje, a agricultura e as pescas passam mais despercebidas. Fortemente desmanteladas desde que Portugal aderiu à UE (então CEE, em 1986), algumas atividades ficaram, [Moi ici: Como o têxtil, o calçado, o mobiliário, a metalomecânica e a cerâmica entre outros] em todo o caso, mais produtivas.Recordar as palavras de Jaime Silva:
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o sector agroalimentar tem relevância nas exportações de bens: pesa 12% do total e cresce 6% ao ano.
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Algo pode estar a mudar outra vez, indicam vários estudos e os relatos vivos de alguns (jovens) que estão a trocar as cidades e os empregos nos serviços pelo campo e por projetos agrícolas inovadores, exportadores.
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Portugal é, na análise do Cedefop, emblemático. No país que outrora foi profundamente agrícola, o maior número de oportunidades de emprego está, justamente e outra vez, na agricultura – cerca de 26% do total será para trabalhadores qualificados em agricultura, floresta e pesca, muito acima da projeção para a UE”, referem os peritos.
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“Parece que Portugal está a acelerar a sua transição para uma economia mais intensiva em conhecimento”, além de que as projeções indicam que cerca de dois terços de todas as oportunidades de emprego entre agora e 2025 irão requerer qualificações de nível alto e médio”.
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[Moi ici: Interessante esta ponta de pensamento estratégico] “Há muita gente a produzir plantas aromáticas e medicinais em Portugal, mas nós fazemo-lo de forma biológica. Isso diferencia-nos e torna as nossas plantas melhores.”
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Exportamos 100%, o clima é uma vantagem.”"
The iPhone 7 if Apple was a democracy 📱😱 (via @JoyofTech) pic.twitter.com/QV9y5h5ar7
— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) January 11, 2016
"Evernote had spread itself too thin, and there was no core experience. Though Evernote did, in fact, continue to push out new features and products, they never managed to fix the underlying problem.Estratégia passa por isto, passa por ter uma identidade, passa por saber renunciar, recordar no mundo do fitness "Salami slicers"
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But the 5 percent problem offers a good lesson about how important it is to maintain a core identity as you build new features and products.
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The Silicon Valley mentality fosters a desire to continue building and iterating because if you don’t, you could get lapped by some new competitor who comes along and outflanks you. And sometimes engineers and product developers just get overly enamored with themselves and their ideas and lose sight of the bigger picture.
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But adding new features requires discipline.
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If you lose sight of the core experience and fall prey to the 5 percent problem, you likely won’t find the road back out."
"In a web world where you want the content to flow freely, how do you use exclusivity - holding content back - to your advantage?
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Information is abundant, and almost any content can easily be found for free. For any person or company trying to monetize scarce or premium content on the social web, there is always somebody else out there willing to provide the same webinar, video, or eBook for nothing, destroying your idea of a scarce resource. Chris Anderson's book Free: The Future of a Radical Price codifies this idea by basically saying "get used to it" - you have to find adjacencies and other revenue streams because people expect Internet-based content and services to be free.
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Is there anything scarce on the Internet?
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Yes, there is, according to digital marketing savant Christopher S. Penn of SHIFT Communications. "Scarcity is actually more powerful than ever on the social web," he said. "While content may be free, what has become extremely scarce is time, attention, and influence. These are hot commodities, rare commodities. As an example, I have tens of thousands of followers on Twitter. I can't tell you the number of direct messages and tweets, Facebook messages, and emails I receive every day asking, 'Hey, can you promote my whatever' because they know that it means something. Moving content creates true value. So in that regard, scarcity is a weapon that is in play like never before." On the other side of the coin, providing exclusive or limited access to content can create the perception of scarcity that can make the content move. [Moi ici: Claro que isto é exactamente o contrário do que se faz, cada vez mais manchas noticiosas obtidas no supermercado low-cost da Agência Lusa que todos serve igual e comoditiza. Onde está a especialização? Onde está o profissionalismo?]
"How the experience economy will evolveTrechos retirados de "A leader's guide to innovation in the experience economy" de Pine e Gilmore, publicado em STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP, VOL. 42 NO. 1 2014, pp. 24-29
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The experience economy is a long-term underlying shift in the very structure of advanced economies and the forces of creative destruction take time.
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The shift into today’s experience economy comes with a number of implications that leaders should keep in mind as they manage their company’s shift from commodity trading, manufacturing and service providing or innovate wholly new businesses birthed in experiences:
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1. Mass customization is the route up the progression of economic value
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Companies should focus on reaching inside of the individual, living, breathing customer, making their offerings as personal and as individual as the customer
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2. Work is theatre. Business enterprises would gain an invaluable perspective simply by declaring their work to be theatre. For when a business sees its workplace as a bare stage, it opens up opportunities to distinguish itself from the myriad humdrum makers of goods and providers of services that perform work without recognizing the true nature of their acts. With theatre furnishing the operating model, even the most mundane of tasks can engage customers in a memorable way.[Moi ici: Quando li isto, juro, recuei logo até Dezembro de 2006]
3. Authenticity is the new consumer sensibility. Concomitant with the shift into the experience economy is a shift in the primary criterion by which people choose what to buy and from whom to buy. No matter the offering – commodity, good, service, experience or transformation – customers will judge it based on whether or not they view it as authentic – that is, whether or not it conforms to their own self-image.
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4. The experience is the marketing. Perhaps the worst offender when it comes to authenticity is advertising, as it has become a phoniness-generating machine. [Moi ici: Relacionar com o outro recorte que se segue mais abaixo] Companies should invest their marketing money in experience places. The best way to generate demand for any offering in today’s experience economy is with an experience so engaging that customers can’t help but pay attention and buy that offering. Marketing therefore needs to become placemaking, where companies create a portfolio of places, both real and virtual, to simultaneously render authenticity and generate demand."
""“Marketing experiences are the new marketing,”Trechos retirado de "Experiences Are The New Brand, And CMOs Are Their Architects"
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“It is really important for CMOs to understand that brand architecture is sort of representative of a bygone era where brands would tell people through creative campaigns what that brand stood for and why you should care,”
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experiences are now the new brand.
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the need for CMOs to become “experience architects.”"
"The fitness sector's introspective viewpoint is also hindering its growth, adds Gehlan: "Everyone's competing against each other head to head, battling over the small pool of people who've already decided to join a gym. That's the wrong time and place to compete. "Rather than competing against other gyms, we should be out there competing with diets, weight loss tablets, recipes, meal plans all the other easier options consumers will try before they even contemplate joining a gym. Because I don't want to be 15th on the list. I want to move my business into a position where it's able to compete as soon as people start doing their 'how to change my life' research."Interessante como ela elege, como concorrência, as alternativas aos ginásios que ajudam a cumprir o mesmo JTBD.
"You’ve implemented a successful Net Promoter Score survey, with a good response rate and a high NPS score. Congrats! Pop that number on your website, sit back and watch the leads roll in. Right?Recuar a 2006, a um postal a caminho dos 10 anos "Medir o Grau de Satisfação dos Clientes para quê?":
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Not quite. When NPS surveys don’t lead to action, it becomes a vanity metric that means very little to your business."
"Porque é que uma organização há-de avaliar o grau de satisfação dos seus clientes?O importante é não perder o propósito, e o propósito é melhorar:
Respostas retorcidas poderão ser:
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Para nos auto-incensarmos. Assim, perante resultados positivos podemos felicitar-nos e encaixilhar o relatório que proclama tais auspiciosas conclusões. "Olhem quão bons nós somos!""
"Na minha humilde opinião, uma organização deve avaliar a opinião dos seus clientes, para ter acesso a informação privilegiada sobre o que é prioritário: onde agir, onde investir, para melhorar o desempenho da organização aos olhos de quem a sustenta, de quem lhes paga as facturas."Se uma avaliação da opinião dos clientes não dá origem a acções de melhoria foi um desperdício de recursos. No entanto, a abordagem mais comum é outra é a de usar o exercício para comprovar que está tudo bem. E, em algumas empresas, esta é a disposição com que se recebem as opiniões menos positivas, pronto a ripostar:
"To understand Apple’s problem, let’s look at the iPhone, which makes up more than 60% of the company’s revenues. In terms of raw materials, it’s probably not worth more than a few bucks, yet people gladly pay $649 to buy one. The difference, MIT’s Cesar Hidalgo argues in his new book, Why Information GrowsAgora, comparar o que penso acerca da concorrência em Mongo aqui, com este pre-crime para satisfazer os incumbentes e a reacção destes outros incumbentes noutras paragens. Depois, voltar a ler aquele trecho "we need to learn to position ourselves at the center of networks". Depois, talvez estudar o que Esko Kilpi reflecte sobre as redes.
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, is what he calls “crystallized imagination.”
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Apple is a very special company because it has mastered the art of crystallizing imagination in its products in such a way that they are more desirable—and hence more valuable—than anything anyone else can produce. The problem for Apple, however, is that there is a lot more imagination in the world than Apple can control by itself.
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The truth is that we can’t think of competitiveness as a strictly internal matter anymore. We no longer operate in an industrial economy in which we can gain competitive advantage merely through engineering greater efficiency. Rather, we need to widen and deepen connections.
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So we can’t continue to think of success in terms of clawing our way to the top of the heap. Rather, we need to learn to position ourselves at the center of networks. Nobody, not even a company as special as Apple, can succeed alone."
"Extreme Sandbox, a heavy-equipment playground for adults....Customers pay about $300 to play with construction equipment in a giant sand pit. Clients can drive an excavator, operate a bulldozer, or crush a car (for an extra $100) for up to 7 hours."
"A story is about significant events and memorable moments, not about time passing....In many cases we evaluate touristic vacations by the story and the memories that we expect to store. The word memorable is often used to describe vacation highlights, explicitly revealing the goal of the experience."
"Profitability = Intellectual Capital X Price X Effectiveness"e ao resultado, o lucro em vez da facturação:
"We start with profitability, rather than revenue, because we are not interested in growth merely for the sake of growth. As many companies around the world have learned - some the hard way, such as the airlines, retailers, and automobile manufacturers - market share is not the open sesame to more profitability. We are interested in finding the right customer, at the right price, consistent with our vision and mission, even if that means frequently turning away customers. I have coined a corollary to Gresham’s law - bad money drives out good - from monetary economics, affectionately known as Baker’s Law: Bad customers drive out good customers.
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Adopting this belief means you need to become much more selective about whom you do business with; even though that marginal business may be “profitable” by conventional accounting standards. Very often the most important costs - and benefits, for that matter - don’t ever show up on a profit and loss statement. Accepting customers who are not a good fit for your company - either because of their personality or the nature of the work involved - has many deleterious effects, such as negatively affecting team member morale and committing fixed capacity to customers who do not value your offerings. This is why the new equation focuses on profitability, not simply gross revenue. When it comes to customers, less is usually more."
"Talking too much early in the greeting. No trust; no relationshipTrecho retirado de "Want Better Results? Align Your Sales Strategy With The Communication Curve"
Talking too much in the discovery. Can’t learn the true pain
Talking too much in the demo. Feature dumping.
Talking too much in the $ discussion. Unresolved issues
Talking too much on an objection. Don’t learn the real issue
Talking too much in the closing. Tough to make a decision
It might be time for a bit of self-analysis on your part."
"HOW VENICE BECAME A MUSEUMIsto é completamente ao contrário do que se recomenda para Mongo "Concorrência vs cooperação em Mongo"
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The switch toward extractive political institutions was now being followed by a move toward extractive economic institutions. Most important, they banned the use of commenda contracts, one of the great institutional innovations that had made Venice rich. This shouldn’t be a surprise: the commenda benefited new merchants, and now the established elite was trying to exclude them. This was just one step toward more extractive economic institutions. Another step came when, starting in 1314, the Venetian state began to take over and nationalize trade. It organized state galleys to engage in trade and, from 1324 on, began to charge individuals high levels of taxes if they wanted to engage in trade. Long-distance trade became the preserve of the nobility. This was the beginning of the end of Venetian prosperity. With the main lines of business monopolized by the increasingly narrow elite, the decline was under way. Venice appeared to have been on the brink of becoming the world’s first inclusive society, but it fell to a coup. Political and economic institutions became more extractive, and Venice began to experience economic decline. By 1500 the population had shrunk to one hundred thousand. Between 1650 and 1800, when the population of Europe rapidly expanded, that of Venice contracted."
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